I just became a shellback less than 2 years ago. I was in 7th Fleet AOR. We did it twice while I was out there. It is definitely not the same from the stories I heard from older Sailors. We keep the camaraderie alive, but everything has been watered down. 80 percent of the things they did in the old Navy would be consider hazing now-a-days. One older Sailor told me the story of how they all just got naked afterwards and threw their clothes overboard and washed off all of the grime on the flight deck instead of going to their berthing. That could never happen in today's Navy. We can't even walk around naked in our berthing now. hahaha The guy telling the story was also on an all-male ship too.

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